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Gov. Jerry Brown joined legislators and labor leaders to announce a landmark agreement that makes California the first state in the nation to commit to raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour statewide on Mon., Mar. 28, 2016 in Sacramento, Calif.
I went on the minimum wage...The minimum wage in California in 1952 (only state I could find such statistics for) was $0.75 an hour. today it is $7.50 in most higher cost of living states, which would be 10X the current value, or around $1000.